The main reason for worrying about Mr Dissanayake is not that he is a zealot. It is that he has little experience in ...

Ignoring the democratic aspirations of voters across South Asia has put New Delhi in an awkward position with a slew of new ...

“A high-level IMF team led by Krishna Srinivasan, Director for the Asia Pacific Department, will be visiting Colombo October ...

Far from simply balancing between the major powers, Dissanayake and the JVP/NPP have made abundantly clear that his ...

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), now in power as the National People’s Power (NPP), has evolved, and the distinction ...

The rapacious Sri Lankan elites see the IMF’s harsh austerity demands as encouraging greater foreign direct investment and ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, was declared the winner of the Sri Lankan ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth president, promising to bolster the economy and fight corruption.

Dissanayake’s victory represents a significant political shift in Sri Lanka which is still grappling with an economic fallout ...

Under normal circumstances, the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Sri Lanka’s presidential election would have been ...

Voters backed Marxist coalition leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, rejecting an old guard accused of leading the country into ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake rode a wave of anger to power. But any Sri Lankan leader’s position is precarious today.